As much as we love film, we also dig music. Once a month, we strum through films that wouldn't be what they are without music.
The movie: Tracey Berkowitz is looking for her younger brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog. The movie tells the story of fifteen-year-old Tracey traipsing through the city's dark slums, encountering sketchy figures, in sessions with her shrink and dealing with adolescence until she ends up on a bus wearing nothing but a shower curtain. Ellen Page takes the lead in this Bruce McDonald-directed non-linear montage, released pre-Juno in Canada, post-Juno in the States. Though grossing only barely more than $40,000 worldwide, it's one of my favourite movies: daring visually and challenging narratively.
